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Call for Abstracts - Infection Prevention 2010

Application accepted from February when the registration website opens

We are pleased to invite submission of abstracts for free paper and poster presentations at Infection Prevention 2010.  The conference provides an opportunity to share the latest practitioner research, advances in audit and surveillance and service improvement initiatives in the field of infection prevention across the health and social care economy.  The themes of this year’s conference are:

• Informing Expert Practice
• Promoting Escellence in Infection Prevention
• Sustaining Systems for Patient Safety

 

In order to submit your free paper/ poster you must first register as a conference delegate.  If your attendance is dependent upon your abstract being accepted for presentation you are not required to make a payment until after you have been notified of the review panel’s decision.  When registering, tick ‘Free Paper/ Poster Entrant’ in the payment section.  You will be contacted to make full payment once the decisions of the review panel have been communicated.  In order to submit your abstract you will need to wait for the email confirmation of your registration and follow the link to sign back in to your registration page. Click here to go to the delegate registration site. If you have any queries regarding this process please contact Stacy Martin  on 01506 811077   Email: stacy@fitwise.co.uk

 

Abstract themes

Abstracts on all aspects of infection prevention are invited. However, research and service improvement reports in the following areas are particularly welcomed:

• Antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship
• Epidemiology and surveillance of healthcare associated infection 
• Behavioural aspects of infection prevention
• Clinical leadership in infection prevention
• Communicable disease prevention
• Community acquired infection, prevention and control
• Education of healthcare staff and the public
• Improving the evidence base for practice and service improvement
• Improving the patient experience
• Infection prevention in specialist areas such as cancer care, mental health, prisons, renal care
• Outbreak management
• Patient and public involvement
• Patient safety

 

Conditions of Submission

1. The presenting author must register to attend the conference prior to submitting an abstract(s).  Payment is not required until confirmation of acceptance.
2. Abstracts will only be accepted if received online in the requested format.
3. Asbtracts must be submitted online by Monday 28th June 2010 . An email confirmation of receipt will be sent within 48 hours.
4. Abstract selection will consider the quality of the study and demonstration of the abstract's relevance to the conference themes.
5. The first author should ideally be the presenting author - please note that all correspondence will be sent to the first author.
6. Please note the number of oral presentations and posters is limited and the selection panel may suggest an abstract is accepted in the alternative presentation format.
7. If selected for oral or poster presentation, authors are required to make their presentation available as a pdf. file for posting on the IPS Conference webpage.
8. Presenting authors are asked to consider submitting their presentation for peer reviewed publication in the Journal of Infection Prevention.
9. The first author will be notified of the decision of the selection panel by email by the end of July 2010.. The decision of the panel is final.
10. Accepted abstracts will be reproduced in the printed and online programme.

 

Format of Abstracts

• Authors should summarise their work in no more than 250 words using Arial 11pt. 
• Please indicate your preference of poster or oral presentation.
• Use subheadings as indicated in the format guidelines.
• Abstracts should not include diagrams, tables, charts or references
• Organism names should be presented using italics - first use should be genus name in full e.g. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and any subsequent use should be upper case initial followed by a full stop eg. M. tuberculosis
• All places, organisations and people must be anonymised.

 

Declaration of Interest

The Infection Prevention Society must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in its educational activities. Therefore, all speakers are expected to declare any conflict of interest relevant to the presentation being given.

 

1.  Title (maximum 70 characters)

2.  Abstract Formats: the following headings must be used for abstract submissions

 

Research Report

• Background and aims
• Research question/ hypothesis
• Design and methods
• Results
• Discussion

 

Outbreak Investigation

• Background to the outbreak including the setting
• Objectives of the investigation
• Description of the investigation and data collection methods
• Results of investigation and analysis of intervention
• Discussion

 

Surveillance Project

• Background to the surveillance project
• Objectives
• Design and methods
• Results
• Discussion

 

Service Improvement Project

• Context (e.g., details of ward, department, staff)
• Improvement issue
• Process used to gather information about the problem
• Strategy for improvement and how success was measured
• Evidence of improvement (did it work and how did you know it had worked?)
• Future steps (how will the improvement be sustained?)

 

A prize will be awarded at the end of the Conference for the best free paper and poster presentation.

 

 

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